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Last night, I've published the first three episodes of UISprech - the German podcast about iOS development. Right before those, I recorded a "null episode" discussing the idea and concept behind this side-project.
Being a regular speaker at ...

My book shelves flow over and I've decided to throw out some of my technical literature. Find below a set of classics, oddities and brand new best sellers. I put those on the German Amazon market as ...

After launching my startup BeamApp, I've been rather quiet over the last months. I paused on blogging, noticeably backed off from twitter and talked less at conferences. In 2012, this is going to change and I am ...

There's been a major redesign of the Xtext website. Not only, it leverages the modern Eclipse Indigo look in different variations. Similar to Xtext itself, it comes with some cool new features whereas others had been polished ...

The German print magazines PAGE 5.11 and mobile business 03.11 both share some of my ideas about mobile development in general, web vs. native, and how designers and developers can work hand in hand to produce a ...

Today, I am switching off the styling of my blog to celebrate the Naked CSS Day 2011. Similar to last year, I am participating in this annual event to promote web standards and proper, semantic markup.
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Next week, the German MobileTech Conference 2011 (Spring Edition) will take place in Munich and features three fully-packed days of sessions and workshops around mobile development and marketing. Being still in California, I won't speak this year ...

Yesterday, Peter and I talked about "Cross-Platform Mobile Development with Eclipse" at EclipseCon in Santa Clara. After some conceptual slides telling about the difficulties one face when targeting different platforms (in our case iPhone, Android, Windows Phone ...

In a few hours from now, I will be on my flight towards this year's EclipseCon in Santa Clara. Similar to my blitz talk last year, I am going to talk about mobile development based on domain-specific ...

Heiko Behrens

is a programmer, author, and public speaker with more than a decade of commercial software development, technical writing, and on-stage presentation experience. As an active committer at Eclipse and as an involved participant in numerous other open source projects, he has in-depth experience in a broad range of technologies. His startup BeamApp, still in stealth mode, is focussed on mobile application development, both native cross-platform and web-based.